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Unlike Theresa May, Sir Keir Starmer will not be the first world leader to set foot in the Trump White House, but he has at least now secured an invitation to Washington. It wasn’t issued on the most gracious of terms – with the president telling reporters “it was his request not mine...
Irish jockey Michael O’Sullivan has died aged 24 as a result of injuries suffered during a fall in a race last week. He died on Sunday morning, the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) confirmed in a statement on behalf of his family. Dr Jennifer Pugh, chief medical officer of the IHRB, adde...
Lawyers for the man suspected of killing rap icon Tupak Shakur are investigating evidence that could show an alternative cause of death. Duane “Keffe D” Davis is the only person still alive who was in the vehicle from which shots were fired in Las Vegas, Nevada, on 7 September 1996. Shakur d...
A young man from an isolated indigenous tribe who approached a village in Brazil’s Amazon returned voluntarily to his people less than 24 hours later. The encounter happened on Wednesday 12 February in Bela Rosa, a community along the Purus River. Footage shows him barefoot and wearing a small loi...
Germans will be voting in a general election next weekend. The country has the largest population – 84 million – and the biggest economy in Europe with a GDP of $4.5trn, but its elections are usually dull affairs. Since the Second World War, there has been agreement between the two ruling ce...
At least 15 people have died and a further 15 are injured after a stampede at the main train station in New Delhi on Saturday evening, the chief minister of the capital has said. The deadly surge happened at about 8pm local time as thousands of passengers waited to board a train to the Maha ...
At least 18 people have died, including 14 women, after a stampede at the main train station in New Delhi, according to local media. The deadly surge happened at about 8pm local time on Saturday evening as thousands of passengers waited to board a train to the Maha Kumbh Hindu festival in Prayagraj in n...
Pope Francis, who was admitted to hospital on Friday, will miss his usual public appearance and weekly prayer with pilgrims on Sunday, the Vatican has said. Doctors have prescribed “absolute rest” for the 88-year-old, who is being treated for a respiratory tract infection. He was admitted to...
Two senior US officials are travelling to Saudi Arabia to initiate peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. Two sources familiar with the matter told Sky News’ US partner network NBC News that national security adviser Mike Waltz and special envoy Steve Witkoff are on their way to Saudi. On...
A man has stabbed five people in southern Austria, including a 14-year-old boy who has died from his injuries. The 23-year-old man attacked five passersby in Villach on Saturday afternoon, according to police. Officers said the suspect is a Syrian national with legal residence in Austria and has been de...
A two-year-old baby and her mother have died after a car was rammed into a group of people in Munich on Thursday. The 37-year-old mother from the city and her daughter are the first fatalities from the incident, German police said on Saturday. At least 36 people were injured on Thursday morning when a c...
It is time for an armed forces of Europe. This was the key message from Ukraine‘s president at a major security conference in Munich that has brutally exposed European irrelevance when the US is not onside. Volodymyr Zelenskyy said such a force would not replace the transatlantic NATO alliance, bu...
A British couple who have been detained in Iran have been named by their family as Craig and Lindsay Foreman. The family said they are “significantly concerned” by the “distressing situation”. Image: Lindsay Foreman. Pic: Family handout via FCDO Image: Craig Foreman. Pic: Family...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he believes it is time for the creation of an “armed forces of Europe”, adding “our army is not enough”. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, the Ukrainian president said Europe cannot rule out the possibility that “America might say no to Eu...
Police in New Zealand have issued an update following a fatal crash which killed one Briton and injured three others. The collision happened on Thursday at about 10.45am in Puruatanga Road in the town of Martinborough, located on the North Island. Police said the crash involved a car and a four-seater q...
Tennis world number one Jannik Sinner has been banned for three months over doping. The Italian player, 23, twice a Grand Slam champion in 2024, tested positive for the anabolic steroid clostebol last March, but he blamed accidental contamination following a massage from his physiotherapist. He has now...
The outgoing deputy commander of the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon has been injured after protesters attacked a convoy near Beirut airport. Demonstrators have been blocking the road to the airport to protest against a decision to revoke permission for a passenger plane from Iran to fly to Beirut on T...
With tripods and light-stands bashing the legs of world leaders, or at the very least their staff, TV crews squeeze up and down staircases overloaded with suits and military braids at an annual security conference in Munich. Speeches and panel sessions are the main public spectacle inside a luxury hotel...
The US State Department spent $24,000 (£19,000) to fund an Irish college’s film project promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Earlier this month the Trump administration described a separate grant of $70,000 (£56,000) for a “DEI musical” in Ireland as “crap” that...
A drone with an explosive warhead has smashed a hole in the radiation shield at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine. The plant’s chief engineer, Alexander Titarchuk, said there was a “possibility of a leak of radioactive substances, but the situation is under control”. “The ba...
The White House Instagram account has caused a stir after posting a Valentine’s message – targeting illegal immigrants. On a day set aside for love and romance, the post came with the less-than-pleasant message: “Rose are red, violets are blue, come here illegally and we will deport yo...
Donald Trump has confirmed he will meet Sir Keir Starmer “very soon” after the prime minister “asked to come” to the US. Mr Trump discussed details of his phone call with Sir Keir while taking questions from the media in the White House’s Oval Office on Friday. “He as...
New video captured by the Sky News helicopter shows Russian ships carrying military equipment through the English Channel. The ships, Sparta and Sparta 2, are currently carrying military equipment from Syria, where the country was forced to close its naval base following the recent fall of dictator Bas...
“Coffee, coffee!” the young boy yells. He balances a tray of steaming drinks he’s trying to sell in the bombed-out devastation of the Jabalia refugee camp. Someone else has set up a kebab shop. Down the road, a teen is getting his hair cut in a makeshift barber’s stall. Tables st...
👉 Listen to Sky News Daily on your podcast app 👈 Donald Trump promised throughout his election campaign that he would end the war in Ukraine, now following a 90-minute phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, is the conflict closer to ending than ever before? On the Sky News Daily, Niall is joi...
We are witnessing one of the biggest shifts in geopolitics since the Second World War. This week one of the fundamental assumptions underpinning European security was put in doubt. American military might has underwritten the defence of Europe since 1945 – Donald Trump says that can no longer be A...
Rwandan-backed rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) say they have seized a second airport in the region. After a days-long advance, M23 rebels said they had seized Kavumu airport, which serves the South Kivu province and the region’s second biggest city Bukavu. In a statement on social...
Ancient Egyptian mummies smell “woody,” “spicy” and “sweet”, according to researchers who took part in a unique new study. Researchers used what they described as “trained, human sniffers” and equipment like an electronic, artificial nose of sorts to study...
Stormzy did not delete an Instagram post in support of Palestinian liberation because of his recent collaboration with McDonald’s, sources close to the rapper have told Sky News. The 31-year-old grime artist has faced a backlash for removing an old post that said “Free Palestine” after...
JD Vance has taken aim at the UK and Europe over what he claimed was “backsliding” free speech and democracy. The US vice president held no punches when addressing European leaders at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Friday. “It’s not clear what’s happened to th...
Donald Trump has been urged to declassify US files on the Lockerbie bombing. A lawyer who represented the British victims killed in the attack called on the US president to release the documents, insisting the families “deserve transparency, truth and answers”. Mr Trump has already moved to...
The three hostages due to be released by Hamas on Saturday as part of its ceasefire deal with Israel have been named. Iair Horn, 46, US-Israeli Sagui Dekel Chen, 36, and Russian-Israeli Alexandre (Sasha) Troufanov, 29 are set to be freed after 498 days in captivity. All three men were taken from the sam...
A man has been found guilty of the rape and murder of Irish backpacker Danielle McLaughlin in 2017. Vikat Bhagat was found guilty at a court in India on Friday. Ms McLaughlin’s naked body was found by a farmer in March 2017 in Deobagh in south Goa. The 28-year-old County Donegal woman had been rap...
Ukraine is still on an “irreversible path” to joining NATO, Sir Keir Starmer has told Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The UK and Ukrainian leaders spoke on the phone early on Friday, according to Downing Street. The conversation came less than 24 hours after Donald Trump told reporters at the White Hou...
Police in Munich say at least 36 people were hurt when a car rammed into a crowd – including a child, who suffered serious injuries. Police told a news conference on Friday that two of the 36 people were “very seriously hurt” in what they now say is being treated as a murder attempt, while ....
The Pope has been admitted to hospital for bronchitis treatment, the Vatican has said. After Friday’s daily audiences he was taken to Rome’s Gemelli Polyclinic, the Vatican said in a short statement. “Pope Francis will be admitted to the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic for necessary diagn...
One Briton has died and three are seriously injured following a crash between a four-seater quad-cycle and a car in New Zealand, officials have said. The incident occurred at around 10.45am local time on Thursday on Puruatanga Road in Martinborough, on the country’s North Island. New Zealand Polic...
👉 Follow Trump 100 on your podcast app 👈 As Donald Trump welcomes India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the White House, our US correspondents Martha Kelner and Mark Stone, ask why Mr Modi met with Elon Musk (and his children) before the president, and what this reveals about the blurred lines b...
In Moscow’s Novodevichy Park there’s an unusual attraction which has become a regular stop on the city’s sightseeing tours. It’s unusual because of what it represents – friendship between Russia and the United States. It is a collection of nine squat statues – a mothe...
This is not a drill. There is a chance – albeit a small one – that an asteroid could hit planet Earth within the next decade. The 2024 YR4 asteroid set off automated asteroid warning systems after it was spotted through advanced telescopes in Rio Hurtado, Chile, last December. Since then, th...
The US president has promised to target countries which charge tax on US imports by matching them with a reciprocal tariff. Donald Trump has ordered his team to start calculating duties by early April – increasing fears of a global trade war that could also accelerate US inflation. “On trade...
Three men have been found guilty of trying to blackmail Formula One legend Michael Schumacher’s family. They threatened to release about 1,500 private photos and videos on the dark web – if they were not paid £12.5m. The trio also threatened to publish digitised copies of Schumacher’s...
Taken at face value Donald Trump’s embrace of reciprocal tariffs is a declaration of total trade war, that would amount to perhaps the single biggest peacetime shock to global commerce. In promising to levy import taxes on any nation that imposes tariffs or VAT on US exports, he is following throu...
A kayaker has said he thought he was going to die when he was swallowed by a humpback whale. Adrian Simancas was off the coast of Chile, in the Strait of Magellan, when it surfaced and gobbled up his yellow boat. His father, who was nearby in another kayak, captured the incident on camera. “I ...
Donald Trump has said he would love to have Russia return to the G7 group of advanced economies, and that expelling the country “was a mistake”. Russia had been a member of the club of industrialised nations, then known as the G8, until it was excluded following its annexation of Ukraine...
The UK government is facing increasing pressure to call on China to release jailed pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai as it seeks closer trading ties with Beijing. Media tycoon Mr Lai is currently on trial in Hong Kong facing charges under the city’s national security law, imposed by Beijing in 20...
Two British citizens have been detained in Iran, the government has said. Both are being supported by the UK Foreign Office, according to a spokesperson. It comes following reports of the detention from Iranian state media yesterday. A spokesperson said: “We are providing consular assistance to tw...
At least 28 people are injured after a car drove into a crowd in Munich, police have said. The incident took place at a square near downtown Munich, close to the city’s central train station at around 10.30am (9.30am UK time), officials said. Munich latest: Car ramming was ‘suspected attack...
Confirmation that police are investigating the Munich car crash as a “suspected attack” will fill Germans with dread and add fuel to an already highly emotional election debate. It’s just under two months since a Saudi doctor was accused of driving his car into a crowd at a Christmas m...
You should always give peace a chance. That US President Donald Trump “thinks out of the box” is already the cliche of the moment. And he may bring a fresh way of thinking and a new energy to ending Russia’s war in Ukraine where others have failed. But there are some ominous signs alre...
